The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-01-27
agricultural.
CRYING HARD TINES.
Southern Cultivator.

/ $1,000
complain of cotton being only worth /
from = to s. cents; they consider
! themselves broke and ruined at these
prices when it is blessing to them,
and to the country, it is no higher
priced. Fifty odd years give one
some experience about farming and
the vicissitudes that attend it. In
my long experience, | never saw but
when cotton sold high for series of
years, but it encouraged them to in |
crease the area Of cotton planting
and curtail the area Of their provis-
ion crops and lead them into specu-
lations and all manner of extrayagan-
ces and waste. and when over pro
| ductlon glutted the market and cot
ton fell in price, it found the farm
ers in debt, which had to be paid by
low priced cotton On the contrary.
when cotton sold low for series of
years, the farmers regulated their al
fairs to suit circumstances it forced
them to become more Seli-sustalning.
hence they increased their provision
crops. lived moro al home. raised
their own bread. sept aus If >pcca-
laionS, economics ,u every depart
men;. hence ,hcy saved more money
a; lov-ly4oca cotton thsu ,ley id
w.,h 1sa-purs.. eotta have ar
ways ueucea ia4; seat> 4r. accounts
were more promptly 9Al3 v,a .ea-
priced cotton Why because when
cotton vas high speculation and cx-
trayagance increased their indebted
ness, and when low-priced, they we're
economical and saving, and every
dollar they got they applied to their
debts. This may seem strange the
Dry, that low priced cotton benefits
the farmers more than high priced
cotton, but experience has shown it
to be the case, and the reasons are
apparent; when speculation sets in
values become fictitious, and inHa
ton goes on until the bubble ex-
| plodeS and reaction throws all in
chaos and dismay, and panic IS the
result, which brings about general
loss and ruin, and riches based on
such iictlous and fraudulent values
melt into poverty Let us 20 back
fifty years, when everything was so
much dearer than nov, coffee y lbs
to the dollar, sugar five and six
pounds to the dollar, IRON ten cents
a pound, axes two dollars and half
each four-fith sheeting thirty seven
and half cents, English fifty cents
per yard and cotton selling at eight
and ten cents. Going back only to
| 1870, our factories sold plaIds at
nineteen cents yard. Last year,
| 1885, they sold the same plaid for
six and one-fourth cents and the
pieSenl poo"' SIN anu 'hree-'oofth
O0i'''' a"U WIN 'o''oii at present
prices, advantages are all in favor Of
'"o 'oi'' u''''''' pu' go 'ne price q
cotton advance to twelve and fifteen
cents, everything else would run up
nisn'i IA ~ i'' - '"e PioPoi''oH ol
'"' pi'oo - ,o.'oi, an" prov i'ion
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'0n Pi"'i'i'7 'i0i '''e" At '"c eNpec-
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pi"'e Tue i'' ''''iS III IL worse cohdl-
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'o'''''''''0' ~ man anu "clS'' an"
'ot,on al SIN cents would pay tEem
we'll N"i "lole system ol farming
= wrong hence thefc Is Such ue-
p'eSSio" anu mar" tilheS win the
FARMERS ana me error IS IN planting
W '"''i' Vo''o'' "'i' loo niue pro
VISIONS win most OF the farmers to-
VA! '"''r co''oh crops are merely
eAG"a'se' 'or 'nclr iood supplies
anu ufoer Such system where can
any pfoht come IN Tor the farmer
WY none LOT an ne makes IS con
7uiAed ID provisions TO support HE:
o'''u'" 'e c'cdT Prol'l' anu II we